Celebrating Nine Years Of Roger Federer's #1 Ranking Triumph!

The amazing article by the tennis lover, Vibhu Batra, celebrating 9 years of the Swiss Maestro's, Roger Federer, domination in tennis since he gained the #1 ranking spot for the first time on February 2nd, 2004.
Enjoy!

Roger Federer's 2nd Grand slam title win was at Australian Open, 2004 on 1st February, 2004, where he defeated Marat Safin in straight sets.
That win ensured that Roger Federer would become the World No.1 on 2nd February, 2004.

Here's what the rankings of Top-10 looked like immediately after Australian Open 2004.

For the next 237 weeks, Roger Federer remained the World No. 1 and it was only after Rafael Nadal won the 2008 Beijing Olympics Gold Medal on 17th August, 2008, that Roger Federer's streak of 237 weeks at World No.1 ended that Sunday night.

Post that Roger Federer has regained No. 1 ranking twice: on 6th July, 2006 after winning the Wimbledon 2009 title defeating Andy Roddick in the epic 5 setter marathon. That stretch of No.1 ranking lasted for 48 weeks and ended after the French Open, 2010.

But after winning the Wimbledon 2012 title he regained the #1 ranking for the 2nd time and that streak continued for another 17 weeks to take his overall tally of weeks at No.1 at 302.

It may be hard to guess if Roger Federer will be able to re-gain the #1 ranking again, but the thing is: the hunger, the dedication, the devotion that Roger Federer has today (after having spent 302 weeks at ATP #1) is same, if not more than when Roger Federer reached the ATP #1 ranking on 2nd February, 2004.

This is how Roger Federer looked when he reached the No.1 ranking for the first time and how he looks now:

Just to give you a fair idea of Roger Federer's dominance, during the last 468 weeks, this is the break-up of Roger Federer's ATP rankings :

1. Roger Federer got the Ranking of #1 for 302 weeks or 64.52% of the 9 year tenure between 2nd Feb-2004 to 2nd Feb- 2013.

2. Roger Federer has been Ranked #2 for 70 weeks or almost 15% of time between 2nd Feb-2004 to 2nd Feb-2013.

3. Roger Federer has been Ranked #3 for 91 weeks or almost 20% of time between 2nd Feb-2004 to 2nd Feb-2013.

4. Roger Federer has been Ranked #4 for 5 weeks or almost 0.01% of time between 2nd Feb-2004 to 2nd Feb-2013.

Here's to more success of the Swiss maestro!

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xo K